How to freeze onion masala

Onion masala is the basic Ingredients in many Indian vegetable and meat curries, and basic onion masala is prepared with onions, garlic, tomatoes and spices like coriander powder, red chili powder and turmeric powder.

Masala is a very generic term used to describe any blend of spices in Indian cooking. It could by the mixture of spices or it could by the mixture of other ingredients with spices. Onion masala is a mixture of onion, garlic, tomatoes and some aromatic spices.

In recent year’s Indian cuisine gaining popularity, so does the Indian cooking. There are various mouthwatering curry dishes, but they seems to be time consuming to prepare day to day basis but it can be quick and easy to cook. Prepare the basic onion masala in large quantity with onion, garlic and tomatoes and freeze it. When ready to cook take it out from the freezer and it is ready to use, and cooking curries are so easy and so quick.

It takes some time to make masala in large quantity but once it is made, it is a great time saver and it could be used for few months. This is the basic onion masala, when you are going to cook adjust the spices according to dish you are going to make you can add yogurt, fresh ginger, green chilies, garam masala or any other spice.

1. Peel and chop the onion and cloves of garlic. Add the chopped onions in the food processer or blender and minced them coarsely or grate them.2. Transfer the the minced onions and garlic in awide nonstick frying pan and cook for15 minutes on medium high heat, the onions will have lot of water so let the water dry up, stirring occasionally.

3. While onion mixture cooks add the tomato to the same food chopper or blender and puree.

4. Once the water evaporated add oil and fry the onions for 25 to 30 minutes or until onions become medium brown.

6. Add tomato puree and mix and let it cook for 10 to 12 minutes or until all the moisture evaporated and you start seeing the oil in the pan, turn the stove off, 7. let the onion masala cool down.

Add tomato puree

Mix tomato puree with fried onion masala and fry

Onion masala is ready

7. When onion masala cool down completely, transfer it into ice cube making trays and place them in the freezer.

8. Once onion masala freeze remove the onion masala cubes from the ice trays and store them in the plastic zip lock bag.

Frozen onion masala ice trays

9. Whenever you need to make curry just take out some cubes and add them to the vegetable or meats and cook, or first defrost the cubes in microwave, transfer them in the pan you are going to cook.Tips:1. This is a basic onion masala you could adjust the spices and add other ingredients according to dish you are going to make.2. If using food processer to chop the onions then choose shredding disk to shred the onions, shredded onions fry better. 3. Cool the onion masala completely before freezing because the condensed steam from the hot onion masala turn into icicles 4. Onion masala could be freeze in a small containers or small zip lock bags according to need.Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.